Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-06-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 2 figures, to appear in MNRAS
Scientific paper
Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) provide a powerful tool for measuring the primary cosmological parameters. However, there is a large degree of parameter degeneracy in simultaneous measurements of the matter density, Omega_m, and the Hubble parameter, H_0. In the present paper we use the presently available CMBR data together with measurements of the cosmological baryon-to-photon ratio, eta, from Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and the relative mass fraction of baryons in clusters to break the parameter degeneracy in measuring Omega_m and H_0. We find that present data is inconsistent with the standard Omega=1, matter dominated model. Our analysis favours a medium density universe with a rather low Hubble parameter. This is compatible with new measurements of type Ia supernovae, and the joint estimate of the two parameters is Omega_m = 0.45^{+0.07}_{-0.07} and H_0 = 39^{+14}_{-13} km s^-1 Mpc^-1. We stress that the upper bound on the Hubble parameter is likely to be much more uncertain than indicated here, because of the limited number of free parameters in our analysis.
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